Happy National Cocoa Day!

 

It's National Cocoa Day!!

We’re celebrating with a load of, yes, you guessed it, Cocoa inspiration.  At the bottom of this post is a linky with all the participating design team projects - Click on the blue button.  Leave comments on all the posts for a chance to win a $20 Gift Card to your choice of Super Sponsor.

 

Commenting to stay open until December 16th at 5 am pacific. Winner will be drawn from across all the comments.  Wrap up post will be on the blog, Friday, December 20th.

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 For my card, I used these fun products:

 Miss Ink Stamps Coffee Time Stencils

Miss Ink Stamps Seasonal Icons Stencils

Spellbinders Merry Mug Creations Dies

 

 

Warm & Cozy

There's so many warm and cozy images/sentiments in this wonderful NEW Dare 2B Artzy COZY HOLIDAYS set!  Pop over to Dare 2B Artzy's Instagram account for a special IG hop featuring the NEW RELEASE - lots of fun and inspiration!

For my card:

Cozy Holidays stamp set

Cozy Holidays coordinating dies

Rectangle Fancy Framelit dies

Winter Escape Collection paper 

Everyday Sparkle Enamel Stickers

 

 

Winter Greetings

 

September is my crafting nirvana - SO many fun holidays/seasons to create for from Fall/Thanksgiving through Christmas/Winter!   Dare 2B Artzy's newest release is filled with wonderful new goodies for all the upcoming holidays!

My card features:

Winter Wonderland stamp set

Winter Wonderland coordinating dies

Winter Escape Collection paper 

Oval Framelits 

 Everyday Sparkle Enamel Stickers

 

STAMPtember THIS CALLS FOR CONFETTI Exclusive!!

Yippee!!  Today's exclusive STAMPtember set is from THIS CALLS FOR CONFETTI!!  We're thrilled to be collaborating with Simon Says Stamp to bring you:  UNBELIEVABLY BIGFOOT! 

For my card, I created a nighttime Distress Oxide background using the moon and trees from the Unbelievably Bigfoot set.  I combined This Calls For Confetti Forest Landscape Metal Craft Die Add-on set to build out the 'forest'.

I stamped Big Foot - and the feet with Distress Ink - Walnut Stain and wet it a bit with a water brush. Then I added the sentiments -- there's several FUN ones in the set.

 

Be sure to grab this set (also available with coordinating dies) soon as this exclusive set will go quickly and will be gone forever!

 

Sending Warm Wishes

 

Before you know it, Fall will be sweeping in. While summer is one of my favorite seasons, the beginning of ‘sweater weather’ is really refreshing from hot/humid days.

For my card, I used several new (and a couple tried and true) goodies from Dare 2B Artzy:

Campfire Friends stamps

Campfire Friends dies

Horizontal Center Step

Fall Harvest Collection Variety

 

 

Shakin' Up Halloween

 

It's almost August which, for me at least, is the beginning of Fall card creating!!  This Calls For Confetti has some cool Halloween goodies (and MORE on the way...hint,  hint!)  

For my card, I used these fun items...

Boo Blend Polymer Confetti

Candy Corn Debossed Shaker Pouch and Die Starter Kit

 Boo! 6x6 Paper Pad

 Shell Pink - Rainbow Pearl Confetti Sequins

Opalescent Mother of Pearl Sequin Confetti  

Make a Splash

These little guys are having a 'splash' making waves on the water!  Sure wish I could join them!

For my card, I used these fun goodies from Dare 2B Artzy:

 

 Water Adventure stamps

Water Adventure dies

 

Holiday Surprise!

 

If it’s July, then it must be that time every crafter starts their Christmas projects! For my Christmas in July card, I used some fun This Calls For Confetti goodies to create a Holiday surprise (and I made the envelope myself!)

For my card, I used these delightful This Calls For Confetti items:

 

Mail Post 6x6 Paper Pad

Mail Post Confetti Mix 

 

 

Saturday Coffee Cafe - Pretty Cups

Happy Saturday and welcome to the Cafe! I'm so happy you stopped in today to see what's brewin'...

I like pretty cups and I cannot lie! When I saw this sentiment stamp, I just had to giggle because it's SO TRUE - at least for me!

For my card I used the following goodies:

Concord & 9th Cup of Kindness Dies

Riley & Co. The Cup Matters sentiment stamp

Echo Park Bee Happy Paper Pad

 

 

 

Seas The Day

 

There's so much I love about being near an ocean, but since I'm sadly land locked, I've had to find some summer water fun my craftroom!

For my first card, I used these amazing Spellbinders stamps/dies:

Set Sail Dies

Guiding Light Dies 

 Typewriter Adventure Sentiments  

 

  For my second card, I used these fabulous items from Spellbinders:

Rainbow Slice Tunnel Dies

 Oh, Buoy! Dies

 Cast Away 3D Embossing Folder

Typewriter Adventure Sentiments 

 

 

Summer Bouquet

 

It's the middle of summer already -- I can't believe how fast it's going!  I'm excited that my flowers are still doing ok even after the hot weather we've had recently.  Today I'm sharing a Dare 2B Artzy summer bouquet and wishing you a beautiful summer day!

For my card, I used these wonderful Dare 2B Artzy goodies:

Beautiful Inside Stamp Set

Beautiful Inside coordinating dies 

 Countryside Floral Collection

 

 

Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge - Sponsor: This Calls For Confetti!

 

Welcome back for Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge #31!

The theme is: Stars

July 1, 2024 - July 25, 2024

Link up a newly created Christmas/Holiday themed card with a Coffee, Tea and/or Cocoa theme HERE!

We are so happy to announce this month's sponsor, This Calls for Confetti!

 

Please be sure to hop over to the This Calls for Confetti blog for more inspiration HERE.

One lucky winner will be randomly picked to receive a $50 Gift Card to This Calls for Confetti!

 

 

For my cards, I used these wonderful goodies from This Calls For Confetti:

 

 

Coffee Time A2 Cover Plate Die 

 

Christmas Post 6x6 Paper Pad

 

  Prism Five-Pointed Star Confetti Sequins

 

 Satin Walnut Sequin Confetti

 

 Full Front Shaker Pockets - A2

 

 It's No Secret Anti Static Tool

 

  

Happy Silhouette

 Had some fun playing with a few new This Calls for Confetti goodies!  Here's what I used for my card:

Retro Stripes Layering Stencil Set

 Alice's Story Honeysuckle Outline Dies

 Happy Sentiments Stamp Set

Happy Layering Die Set

 

 

To My Person

 

To all my wonderful family and friends...You make life more beautiful!!  And these wonderful products from Dare 2B Artzy help create super easy, beautiful creations!

For my card, I layered a Countryside Floral pattern paper on the front/card base.  I then scored the top corner, folded it down and layered that section with the pattern paper and cardstock.  Did you know that many of the images found in Dare 2B Artzy's pattern paper can be cut out using the coordinating die sets that also go with the stamp set?  That's how I cut out these images for my card!

Countryside Floral Variety Pack

 Beauty of Nature Die set

Beauty of Nature Stamp set 

 

 

 

It's a Birthday Celebration!

 

What’s a party without cake?!  My birthday celebration card created with some festive as well as tasty goodies from Honey Bee Stamps!

 

Honey Bee Stamps -Birthday Cake A2 Card dies

Honey Bee Stamps – Make AWish stamps

Honey Bee Stamps – Big Birthday

Honey Bee Stamps –Lovely Layers Party Blowers

VersaMark Watermark InkPad